Description
An indispensable read for all those seeking to address the severe problems of local and global human health and environmental crises The widespread growth of monopolies and big business has led to a fourth industrial revolution focused on producing fast, living fast, and dying fast for the sole benefit of accelerated profit. Despite unprecedented accumulations of wealth and industry, the world has watched as indicators of income inequality--a partial parameter of social inequity--have increased, while big business, with their nearly unrestricted influence, has increasingly distorted advancements in medical research. Bold and incisive, Critical Epidemiology and the People's Health invites readers to the next great paradigm in public health by promoting a progressive, transdisciplinary, intercultural, community-building approach radically divergent from the presiding object-based, empiricist mode of thinking. A concise overview of the Latin American Social Medicine movement, this book introduces the work of leading scientist Jaime Breilh to a global English audience, focusing on key questions such as: What are the real challenges facing critical epidemiology during the current time of immense turmoil and inequity? How can we conduct responsible and sensitive public health research? What role does epidemiology play in addressing the societal ills of both the global North and South? And how can we create a more rigorous, updated, and effective epidemiology? In addressing these questions, Critical Epidemiology and the People's Health offers readers a clear-eyed and much-needed perspective on how to overcome Cartesian reductionism with renewed methodological tools to address the rampant growth of injustices harming our global collective health and to subvert the reigning notions of health prevention and promotion.
About the Author
Jaime Breilh, MD, PhD, is Director of the Collective Health Research Center and Laboratories (CILABSalud) and former rector (2016-2018) at the Andean University of Ecuador (UASB-E); and former President of the Ecuadorian Academy of Medicine (2014-2016). Dr. Breilh is internationally recognized as one of the founders of Latin American critical epidemiology and the Latin American Movement of Social Medicine/Collective Health. His work has been lauded for its groundbreaking contributions to the understanding of the social determinants of health, critical health theory, and alternative research methodology. Various universities have nominated him as honorary professor. He has been granted academic awards by the International Students Organization, University of California San Diego (2004); the Peter Wall Advanced Studies Institute, University of British Columbia (2012); the National Congress of Students of Ecuador (2018); and the Rector's Award, University of Antioquia, Colombia (2018).
Reviews
The English publication of Critical Epidemiology and the People's Health is a valuable opportunity to explore these important issues; to vindicate the theory of a social determination of health that emerged in Latin America; and to deepen and expand international academic dialogs.... Perhaps, as can be read in the author's reference to Zapatista wisdom, this book can inspire us to build knowledge arising from 'our collective heart. * Manuel Capella, World Medical & Health Policy *
This brilliant book is a model of both translation and transformation. It presents decades of research in Latin American critical epidemiology to English-speaking audiences and scholars in other fields and demonstrates that producing emancipatory, path-breaking analysis requires confronting deeply-entrenched quantitative and qualitative reductionisms. * Charles L. Briggs, PhD, Distinguished Professor, University of California, Berkeley *
Jaime Breilh is arguably the most creative and influential critical epidemiologist in the world today. Through his brilliant publications, teaching, and public service, he has influenced three generations of scholars and activists with groundbreaking research studies that have challenged the dominant conceptual and methodological paradigms of public health. Drawing on this research and the tradition of Latin American social medicine, Critical Epidemiology and the People's Health offers an illuminating and inspiring guide for our scientific work and praxis during this transformative period of our planet's history. * Howard Waitzkin, MD, PhD, Distinguished Professor Emeritus, University of New Mexico *
Jaime Breilh must be praised for calling attention to culture in disciplinary transformation by underscoring how the contribution of indigenous knowledge and thinking complements academic critical thinking. As we continue to advance our knowledge and methods in epidemiology and public health in diverse and multicultural contexts, this book offers a timely and much needed intellectual breeze of fresh air for our critical thinking and approaches in addressing and solving population health problems for years to come. * Luisa N. Borrell, DDS, PhD, Distinguished Professor, Department of Epidemiology & Biostatistics, City University of New York Graduate School of Public Health & Health Policy *
Book Information
ISBN 9780190492786
Author Jaime Breilh
Format Hardback
Page Count 280
Imprint Oxford University Press Inc
Publisher Oxford University Press Inc
Weight(grams) 338g
Dimensions(mm) 185mm * 132mm * 20mm
About the Author
Jaime Breilh, MD, PhD, is Director of the Collective Health Research Center and Laboratories (CILABSalud) and former rector (2016-2018) at the Andean University of Ecuador (UASB-E); and former President of the Ecuadorian Academy of Medicine (2014-2016). Dr. Breilh is internationally recognized as one of the founders of Latin American critical epidemiology and the Latin American Movement of Social Medicine/Collective Health. His work has been lauded for its groundbreaking contributions to the understanding of the social determinants of health, critical health theory, and alternative research methodology. Various universities have nominated him as honorary professor. He has been granted academic awards by the International Students Organization, University of California San Diego (2004); the Peter Wall Advanced Studies Institute, University of British Columbia (2012); the National Congress of Students of Ecuador (2018); and the Rector's Award, University of Antioquia, Colombia (2018).
Reviews
The English publication of Critical Epidemiology and the People's Health is a valuable opportunity to explore these important issues; to vindicate the theory of a social determination of health that emerged in Latin America; and to deepen and expand international academic dialogs.... Perhaps, as can be read in the author's reference to Zapatista wisdom, this book can inspire us to build knowledge arising from 'our collective heart. * Manuel Capella, World Medical & Health Policy *
This brilliant book is a model of both translation and transformation. It presents decades of research in Latin American critical epidemiology to English-speaking audiences and scholars in other fields and demonstrates that producing emancipatory, path-breaking analysis requires confronting deeply-entrenched quantitative and qualitative reductionisms. * Charles L. Briggs, PhD, Distinguished Professor, University of California, Berkeley *
Jaime Breilh is arguably the most creative and influential critical epidemiologist in the world today. Through his brilliant publications, teaching, and public service, he has influenced three generations of scholars and activists with groundbreaking research studies that have challenged the dominant conceptual and methodological paradigms of public health. Drawing on this research and the tradition of Latin American social medicine, Critical Epidemiology and the People's Health offers an illuminating and inspiring guide for our scientific work and praxis during this transformative period of our planet's history. * Howard Waitzkin, MD, PhD, Distinguished Professor Emeritus, University of New Mexico *
Jaime Breilh must be praised for calling attention to culture in disciplinary transformation by underscoring how the contribution of indigenous knowledge and thinking complements academic critical thinking. As we continue to advance our knowledge and methods in epidemiology and public health in diverse and multicultural contexts, this book offers a timely and much needed intellectual breeze of fresh air for our critical thinking and approaches in addressing and solving population health problems for years to come. * Luisa N. Borrell, DDS, PhD, Distinguished Professor, Department of Epidemiology & Biostatistics, City University of New York Graduate School of Public Health & Health Policy *
Book Information
ISBN 9780190492786
Author Jaime Breilh
Format Hardback
Page Count 280
Imprint Oxford University Press Inc
Publisher Oxford University Press Inc
Weight(grams) 338g
Dimensions(mm) 185mm * 132mm * 20mm
